diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c b/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c
index c6695354b123..19b0cc5ea33f 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c
@@ -95,6 +95,15 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(ashmem_mutex);
 static struct kmem_cache *ashmem_area_cachep __read_mostly;
 static struct kmem_cache *ashmem_range_cachep __read_mostly;
 
+/*
+ * A separate lockdep class for the backing shmem inodes to resolve the lockdep
+ * warning about the race between kswapd taking fs_reclaim before inode_lock
+ * and write syscall taking inode_lock and then fs_reclaim.
+ * Note that such race is impossible because ashmem does not support write
+ * syscalls operating on the backing shmem.
+ */
+static struct lock_class_key backing_shmem_inode_class;
+
 static inline unsigned long range_size(struct ashmem_range *range)
 {
 	return range->pgend - range->pgstart + 1;
@@ -396,6 +405,7 @@ static int ashmem_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 	if (!asma->file) {
 		char *name = ASHMEM_NAME_DEF;
 		struct file *vmfile;
+		struct inode *inode;
 
 		if (asma->name[ASHMEM_NAME_PREFIX_LEN] != '\0')
 			name = asma->name;
@@ -407,6 +417,8 @@ static int ashmem_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 			goto out;
 		}
 		vmfile->f_mode |= FMODE_LSEEK;
+		inode = file_inode(vmfile);
+		lockdep_set_class(&inode->i_rwsem, &backing_shmem_inode_class);
 		asma->file = vmfile;
 		/*
 		 * override mmap operation of the vmfile so that it can't be